George Ross Smith | |
State: | Minnesota |
Term Start: | March 4, 1913 |
Term End: | March 3, 1917 |
Predecessor: | Frank Nye |
Successor: | Ernest Lundeen |
Birth Date: | 28 May 1864 |
Birth Place: | St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S. |
Death Place: | Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S |
Education: | University of Minnesota |
George Ross Smith (May 28, 1864 - November 7, 1952) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.
He was born in St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota; attended the public schools and Sauk Centre (Minnesota) Academy; was graduated from the law school of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1893.[1]
He was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Minneapolis. He became a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1903, and was a judge of the probate court of Hennepin County, Minnesota from 1907 to 1913.
He elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law and taught law classes at Minneapolis-Minnesota Law School.
He died in Minneapolis on November 7, 1952, and was buried at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.[2]